Hello, everybody. Welcome back to the Fire Escape cast. It is episode 129. I'm your host, as always, Mike

Mahardi, I'm back. No more Mike Manati imposter. Bullshit. No, I sounded like it was a great episode. Dan, your prank is the funniest thing I've ever heard. Speaking of impostors, yeah. He's the biggest imposter of all time. Walter Crunk is banned from the Giant Bomb Subreddit, folks. Oh, really? Yeah. Were you being a racist again? Yeah, yeah, that's my whole gimmick. Yeah, it's a crowd blazer. People love it. Yeah. Were you being a racist again? Yeah, yeah, that's my whole gimmick.

Yeah, it's a crowd blazer. People love it. Yeah. No, no. I just pulled a great five-month joke, and Walter Crunk was punished for it. That's typical Reddit, I say. That reminds me, yeah, I wasn't here last episode. I also have not talked to you guys about New Orleans yet. And I'm sure you talked about it last episode.

So I won't like, episode. I also have not talked to you guys about New Orleans yet. And I'm sure you talked about it last episode. So I won't like not beat a dead horse be a broken record. We didn't go like super deep into it. I mean, also in terms of talking about it, like, Mary, we kind of just walked around and drank and ate stuff for like a weekend. Yeah. I'd love to tell you a really fascinating or amazing story. I would

say the most interesting stories are Dan was very convinced that we should all ride the bull.

And that did happen. Everybody got grenades and Dan got us in line and most people rode the

bull. Dan, you have a really funny photo of you getting chucked around on that bowl. It's very funny. I'm fucking terrible with that. I wrote that bowl like every time I've been on Bourbon Street and falling off in like three seconds every time. Also, hang grenades for the record. Oh, I can't believe you got hand grenades in New Orleans. I'm sure, you know, people will say it's, they're fucking terrible.

We know.

But it's like there are people there.

It was their first time in New Orleans.

And it's like, okay, this is the stupid gimmicky Burbank Street thing.

Yeah, we did one. And they were terrible. They were genuinely terrible. I don't hang out in Times Square anymore, but the first time I ever went to New York, it's like, okay, sure, let's do it.

Of course.

Yeah, we had one walk down Bourbon Street and then it was like,

all right, that's pretty, we're good for the rest of the trip on that. It's a right of passage. And I also think, like, they're funny for the pictures and stuff like that. And again, it's a walk around drinking town. So it's not a big deal to get one, have a couple of sips of it. And if you don't love it, then you just get another drink and walk around with it. Like we had many drinks. A grenade was one of them. There was another drink that, oh, a hurricane. We got a hurricane as well. You had to have both of those. We got the hurricane at Lafitte's blacksmith shop, the old pirate bar on Bourbon Street,

which is actually a really cool.

I like that place a lot. Well, that hurricane was fucking way too strong and not great. But then we went to Pat O'Brien's. Remember we found that dueling piano bar thing? I do like a dueling piano. Yeah, yeah. And we got really good hurricanes there. Is there, can you have open containers in the streets in New Orleans?

You just walk around with all of your drinks out and it's really refreshing.

The only thing you have to think about because I was like, wow, this is so amazing.

A lot of times a bar won't let you in with an empty drink because they, or sorry, with a full

drink because they want you to buy a drink in their bar, right?

Like that's how they make a living. So you can buy a drink at a bar and leave with the

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